Floyd County, Texas
Historical Markers in Lockney, Texas
Duane tells the stories behind 5 Texas historical markers in Lockney, in Floyd County. Each one is hand-told in his own voice, with the official marker text right alongside. The markers on this list were placed between 1971 and 2011.
Start with these Lockney stories
- First Baptist Church of Lockneyplaced 1990
Led by The Rev. I. B. Kimbrough, nineteen charter members organized the First Missionary Baptist Church of Floyd County in December 1890.
- First Methodist Church of Lockneyplaced 1990
This church traces its history to 1890, when The Rev. R. M. Morris led about twenty-five Methodists in organizing a new congregation.
- John Ellison Burnsplaced 1983
Trained as a blacksmith by his father in Alabama, John Ellison Burns (1853-1940) brought his hand-forged tools to Texas in 1874.
- The J. A. Baker Storeplaced 1971
Opened 1894; one of the Texas South Plains' oldest mercantile houses still owned by founding family.
- Trinity Lutheran Churchplaced 2011
Lutherans in the Providence community requested a missionary from the Mission Board of the First Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Texas to fill the need…
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